35 Quotes by Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett was an English novelist and journalist who lived from 1867 to 1931. He wrote over 30 novels, including "The Old Wives' Tale" and "Clayhanger," which are considered classics of English literature. Bennett's works often focused on the lives of the middle class in England and explored themes such as social mobility and family relationships. He was also a prominent journalist and critic, writing for newspapers such as the Evening Standard and the New York Herald Tribune. Bennett's work continues to be read and studied today, and he is considered an important figure in the literary history of England. (Bio)
Arnold Bennett Quotes
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. (Meaning)
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. (Meaning)
The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.
The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.
Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.
Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.
We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.
I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.
It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.
― Arnold Bennett Quotes
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